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Author: Bill Wannan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 608
Book Description
"... Comprehensive collection of Australian lore, legends, traditions, ballads and popular sayings ... It is more than an anthology. It is the first attempt to systematically collect and annotate the whole field of Australian traditional folklore. Documentary source material has been supplied wherever it exists and this, together with oral and personal contributions, provides a rich source of reference material. The book is illustrated throughout and contains many rare contemporary prints and photographs. It is a mine of information and reference material for the student, writer or browsing reader. An assemblage of: legends, ballads, folk heroes, eccentrics, ghosts, country cures and remedies, bush cooking, toasts, bush jingles, sobriquets, mythical beasts and birds, familiar quotations, lost reefs and buried treasure, popular allusions, dreams, omens and prophecies, place names." -- Inside front cover.
Author: Bill Wannan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 608
Book Description
"... Comprehensive collection of Australian lore, legends, traditions, ballads and popular sayings ... It is more than an anthology. It is the first attempt to systematically collect and annotate the whole field of Australian traditional folklore. Documentary source material has been supplied wherever it exists and this, together with oral and personal contributions, provides a rich source of reference material. The book is illustrated throughout and contains many rare contemporary prints and photographs. It is a mine of information and reference material for the student, writer or browsing reader. An assemblage of: legends, ballads, folk heroes, eccentrics, ghosts, country cures and remedies, bush cooking, toasts, bush jingles, sobriquets, mythical beasts and birds, familiar quotations, lost reefs and buried treasure, popular allusions, dreams, omens and prophecies, place names." -- Inside front cover.
Author: Publisher: Melbourne : Lansdowne ISBN: Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 608
Book Description
Who was ‘Anzac mac’? ‘Blue Bob of Borroloola’? ‘Crooked Mick of the Speewah’? How did the terms pommy, jackeroo and ‘cocky-farmer’ originate? What is the meaning of phrases like ‘Beyond the Black Stump’, ‘It’s a find day for travelling’ and ‘To give someone the drum’? Australian folklore has all the answers. It is the most comprehensive collection of Australian lore, legends, traditions, ballads and popular sayings ever published.
Author: Gwenda Davey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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An alphabetically arranged list of terms, allusions, characters, events and places that constitutes the folklore of Australia, past and present.
Author: Mudrooroo Publisher: ETT Imprint ISBN: 1925706346 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Aboriginals believe they have lived in Australia since the Dreamtime, the beginning of all creation, and archaeological evidence shows the land has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years. Over this time, Aboriginal culture has grown a rich variety of mythologies in hundreds of different languages. Their unifying feature is a shared belief that the whole universe is alive, that we belong to the land and must care for it. This was the first book to collate and explain the many fascinating elements of Aboriginal culture: the song circles and stories, artefacts, landmarks, characters and customs.
Author: Bill Wannan
Author: Bill Wannan
Author: Bill Wannan
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Author: Gwenda Davey
Author: Mudrooroo